Aww, I’m just broken up over this…
Via Daily Mail:
The Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestors has been condemned for breaching a broadcaster’s standards and his future with PBS thrown into doubt.
The episode of Finding Your Roots in which Affleck had details about his slave ancestors edited out breached the PBS editorial standards, the network’s internal review has concluded.
Henry Louis Gates Jr, the host of the genealogy show, was guilty of allowing ‘improper influence’ to sway his judgement when he caved in to the Batman star’s request.
Gates also failed to tell his superiors who only heard about it when Daily Mail Online contacted them for comment whilst breaking the story, the review says.